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.......Eritrea forged a new strategic military relationship with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that involved allowing the Arab coalition to use Eritrean land, airspace and territorial waters in its anti-Houthi military campaign in Yemen. The Monitoring Group understands that, as part of the

Eritrean asylum seekers were stunned by reports of Sunday’s lynching of Habtom Zarhum in Be’er Sheva. Videos showing a furious mob kicking and beating the wounded man following a terror attack quickly spread among the community. “The community is in shock,” said Berhana, a 30-year-old Eritrean

First to Sudan, then back to Asmara and finally Switzerland, Mehrawi has moved wherever the shifting currents of war, displacement and hope have taken him Geneva: It’s a splendid evening in Geneva: the ultramarine sky, the soft golden light of the evening, the gently flowing Rhône, and

13 October 2015 Quebec City, Canada – PEN International’s Assembly of Delegates, meeting at the organisation’s 81st international Congress in Quebec City, Canada this week, have today called for the immediate and unconditional release of two imprisoned writers Raif Badawi and Amanuel Asrat and justice for murdered Honduran

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By Oboarada abashawl alias wolde tewolde October 13, 2015 In a matter of one month, three celebrities from Eritrea and Ethiopia have died reportedly by stroke. What is a stroke? Stroke is a collapse of the brain caused mainly by blockage of blood to the brain. There

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The UN security council will meet on Friday to consider a report on Eritrea’s alleged support for subversion across the Horn of Africa. The report, by the UN Monitoring Group on Eritrea and Somalia, will play an important part in the global body’s decision on whether

One of the most strange and pervasive attributes peculiar to Eritreans - possibly, Eritreans only - is obstinacy: the stubbornly unyielding refusal to change an opinion or a course of action.  To stubbornly speak and write about its importance, even when your venue is discredited. 

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“Eritrea is Africa’s North Korea.” This glib comparison has defined Eritrea in the minds of the (very) few outsiders who have afforded it any consideration since it became a pariah state in the early zeroes. But Eritrea is defiantly different from anywhere on Earth—a nation

Quote of the moment: A parked mindset on independence and a stubborn mind cannot rectify the current Eritrean question of freedom and democracy for they are 25 years behind the clock.   In my understanding, the human race can do anything for society but only with proper

‘Haba’e Kuslu, Haba’e Fewsu’ Part II:  The Myth of Sanctions against Eritrea I chose this issue as a separate topic because it exemplifies the twisted nature of politics.  The irony of the UNSC sanction is that both the regime and opposition see political benefits in maintaining the

In this century of technology the advantages of the media are extraordinary, with news and other related activities like our fight to freedom, human rights and others. However, being responsible to what you post and say is very important as a single line or word could

Whenever this maxim comes in the Eritrean political vernacular, it reminds me of the same 19th Century maxim, if not in meaning, at least, in the message it conveys: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"  It is a pretty humble question; isn't it? "Because it wants

The refugee crisis is in its highest pick after the WWII according to Al-Jazeera and BBC news rooms. This refugee influxes is resulting a number of geo-political dynamics at a global scale. Most western governments are taking refugee crisis a serious matter. They are taking

By Mohammed Barkay The people of Tigray and Eritrea are the most related people on earth. We share almost everything except the secrets. Behaviorally speaking, we Eritreans are more direct and aggressive in nature but the Tigreans are known as polite and  with ill-intention. Our people

According to United Nations figures, Syrians have made up roughly half of the migrants trying to reach Europe by sea this year. They’re followed by Afghans and Eritreans. Thousands are believed to be fleeing the country in the Horn of Africa every month, even though the

DMHIT’s defection and its consequence on the Eritrean society DEMHIT’s dissolution is certainly an advantage to the Eritrean people since the society is better off without it and the useless other Ethiopian opposition forces in Eritrea. Afwerki cannot dare babysit these imaginary forces in our country

September 17, 2015 What happened on 18 September 2001? Eritrea has its own day that lives in infamy – 18 September 2001. On that day, Eritrea lost all vestiges of being a free and democratic society – and  in effect became  a totalitarian dictatorship and the personal

‘Haba’e Kuslu, Haba’e Fewsu’ Part I: At War with Itself Three days before independence day May 24th, 2001, one of the G15’s (‘reformers’) characterizing the state of affairs within EPLF/PFDJ as ‘Haba’e Kuslu, Haba’e Fewsu’ was splashed across one of the independent Eritrean newspapers, bringing into open

September 18, 2001 was a horrifying day for Eritreans and international organizations advocating for journalists as well as freedom of speech. The day Eritrean private newspaper journalists and high ranking government officials were put behind bars was the day the nation came to an official

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Remark: Nothing outlasts a social foundation built on benevolence for betri haki’s tketin ember aitsebern. Everything has a beginning and an end and there is no permanence in nature except the delusional life in the individualistic mind of a dictator. The sinking boat of Afwerki’s

Whenever September comes there are two events always remembered, the Eritrean Armed Struggle starting day by our hero Hamid Awate, and the arrest of our nation’s founding fathers - G15. As any African nation Eritrea and Eritreans suffered a lot under various colonizers and it

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According to Doctor Daniel R. Mekonnen, a former judge in Asmara, currently a Lawyer representing us in the ongoing effort of the Commission of Inquire on crimes against humanity, Eritrea had 8978 (with a little margin of error) jailed people without KISSI (case) under different

Eritrea, as a country, is facing problems of forced depopulation internally and forced disconnection externally.  Isayas’s policy of militarizing the country compelled the youth to live in ditches and their parents to carry guns and guard empty streets.  The policy rendered living a peaceful and

“The harder they come, the harder they fall” and the harder the dictatorship presses the society down, the stronger our people explode on its face at universal dimensions of the relationship. Every attempt to neutralize the Eritrean character has been efficiently challenged by the extraordinary

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Guitar is the most complicated instrument in music to my understanding. Mood, tuning, temperature, state of mind and of course a little deviation from reality through the help of artificial intervention such as moderate alcohol matter in guitar like in operating any other musical instruments.

Remark: One who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat history. Independent transitional passage is the only effective way of unifying different ideas towards democracy; the rest is dictatorship. There is no mind more DEMOCRATIC than the INDEPENDENT and no excuse for THE

By Dan Connell, August 14, 2015. Two young women reflect on their decision to flee Eritrea, a small state that produces one of the highest rates of asylum seekers in the world. Neema and Afrah, both Muslims from Eritrea’s Blin minority, fled Eritrea a year apart. Today

REMARK: We have the right to express subjective or group opinion on any subject matter but no one has the right to dictate national issues except the CONSTITUTION. I have no major problem with OUR VOICE’s view of identity and history as long as they

By Fesseha Nair The Democratic transition from dictatorship to Democracy in the 80th, 90th and the recent of the Arab spring where some were successful, and some were failures and resulted in civil wars and destabilisation. The South African model of dialogue was a good example illustrating how an

An Inclusive Definition of “Who is an Eritrean?” By Our Voice Global Eritrean Democratic Grassroots Movement (GEDGM) “OUR DESTINY IN OUR HANDS!” One of the requirements of conducting a successful grassroots election with the purpose of swiftly forming a people’s Baito and a Global Eritrean Leadership Council for regime change is inevitably

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My opinion on OUR VOICE’s latest article on the Urgency of Re-organizing and Strengthening Eritrean Democratic Grassroots Movements for Primary Elections by assenna, August 6, 2015 Remark: The final moment for the dictatorship and its evil doctrines to crumble has arrived for all of us to